I forgot to mention this last night. Yesterday morning I arrived at work to find the following email from talishka@ukr.net:
Dear Luuk
If you wish to return your ICQ number 5152468 with all data and contacts, address answer to this email.
That you have believed in gravity of my intentions I send to you a part of the list of your contacts.
…
Deleted list of contacts
…With the best regards, Talishka
Understandably I wasn’t too impressed with this, so I wrote him back a very subtly worded email:
Dear Talishka,
You are a dick. I don’t care. I don’t use my ICQ account anymore anyway.
Cheers,
Luuk
and then proceeded to retrieve my account (Method omitted), and emailed him again:
Nice try
Then I sent this email to his ISP (with accidentally included grammatical and extra word errors)
Hello,
Today I received an email from “talishka@ukr.net”. In this email I
was told that my ICQ number had been stolen. I have since retrieved
the number, but would like to complain about about your customers use
of your service and request that you take action to prevent this from
happening again. The contents of the email is below.Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Regards
Luuk.
I also changed a bunch of my passwords for good measure. The wisdom of antagonising hackers is somewhat questionable, but I do not negotiate with terrorists, especially n00bs.